Project Report
| Nov 29, 2012
Want a Wallet? Donate Today!
By Tanya Weaver | Executive Director
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Friends, during this season of giving, we are giving back a small "thank you" to everyone who makes a $25 (or larger) donation to this particular project. Will you make a donation today? And, will you please tell your friends and family about this project so that they, too, will make a small donation that will change how a child eats?
This particular project is moving forward wonderfully. Our pilot greenhouse is housing tomato seedlings who look so neat growing straight up. They will be attached to hanging strings in order to use the space as best as we can, producing fruit for many, many children. It is our hope that all children in the Mombasa program will receive nutritious food and the training to grow their own one day and that we'll be able to expand the greenhouse project to include 10 additional ones. All this takes time, but from all reports, things are looking great and we are on the right path.
We thank you for your generosity and hope you'll remember our kids when you use the beautiful wallet we'll send you!
On behalf of our children,
tanya
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Nov 7, 2012
What is happening in Mombasa?
By Veronica Wanjiru | Project Director
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Greenhouse
The Portriez Shamba (garden) was started to benefit our clients with vegetables to add vitamins into their food
intake and since then, we have seen great improvement in their health
Sixty-seven clients and five support groups with 20 members each have benefited from the trainings regarding preparation of gardens, planting, weeding, harvesting, and other management skills. Some clients have really tried to build small kitchen gardens though the challenge they have is lack of water. Lack of water seems to be one of our biggest issues here in Mombasa. We don't lack hard working people or families who want to eat better and to do what they must do in order to eat more nutritionally. What we need is water!
With the lack of water in mind, we studies greenhouses and with the help of AFCA, we purchased on for this land. Right now, seedlings are ready for transplanting into the greenhouse and we hope to have the first harvest of tomatoes and sukuma wiki (Kale) in late January. When this happens, we will celebrate big because this will be a huge thing for our clients and the children in our program. I can't wait for this.
Thank you,
Veronica
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our tomatoes!
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Oct 2, 2012
A Greenhouse Fits on the Land
By Tanya Weaver | Executive Director
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This is the goal
This week, this very week, is an important week for the project in Mombasa. This is the week when a greenhouse will be installed in Portriez, the smaller garden site. In it, tomatoes and peppers and melons will be grown - all items that are usually imported because they are so difficult to grow in Mombasa's hot and humid weather.
Why is this so exciting? Simple:
- Children in the program will have veggies to complement their diets
- The program will start moving, slowly but surely, towards the path of self-sustainability by producing their own food
- Food which is typically very difficult to grow in Mombasa will grow well in the greenhouse, as our photos show
- Maize and hardier veggies will grow right outside the greenhouse, using the same drip irrigation system, providing even more food for the kids
- Seeds will be saved for other gardens or for the next year's planting season
Thank you for being part of this, friends! We'll send updates as plants start growing and veggies are harvested.
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Outside of Dream Greenhouse
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Beneficiaries with AFCA Director
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